Customers of China Mobile can look forward to 4G iPhone support in the future, this according to a report by Reuters which quotes Chine Mobile’s Chairman, Wang Jianzhou. The main difference between TD-LTE and your run of the mill LTE is that with the TD standard, voice and data uplink/download channels are combined and split resources based on demand. Standard LTE (FDD-LTE) uses separate, fixed channels. In short: it’s more versatile. According to Jianzhou, China Mobile and Apple have been in talks for a solid two years, with the fruits of their labor to drop in the not too distant future, and ending China Unicom’s exclusive sales rights to Apple’s iPhone.

And to make it clear, China Mobile won’t be the only benefactor in this deal. As China’s largest carrier with a total 584million+ customers (compared to China Unicom’s 167.4 million), Apple has quite the pool of bodies to woo over to team iOS. So if an LTE compliant iPhone is in the cards for China, you can surely bet that a similar version is in the works for the states as well. Maybe not for iPhone 5, but iPhone 6 is looking like a sure bet. Thoughts?

Source: Reuters